IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
Impact Factor: 4.9
Scope:
The IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion publishes both research and application-oriented articles dealing with the development, design, operation, modeling, analysis, diagnostics and control of electrical equipment used to convert any kind of energy (such as mechanical, chemical and solar) into electrical energy and vice versa. Any electric power generating apparatus based on fossil, renewable, nuclear or unconventional sources and used for either centralized or distributed generation systems is of interest for the journal. The scope also includes any kind of equipment used to convert electric into mechanical power, such as electric drives, machinery and actuators. Electrical energy storage and electrical energy production from storage are covered. Power electronics and control should not be the primary research contribution of the papers. They are of interest only when they are part of the energy conversion process being described, such as power electronics converters treated as a part of electric drives, or grid interfaces for electric power generation or electric energy storage devices.
Paper Categories
Topics within the journal scope:
Electric Machinery:
- Direct current machines
- Permanent magnet machinery systems
- Switched and variable reluctance machines
- Integral horsepower induction machinery
- Wound rotor induction machinery
- Single phase induction motors
- Electronic drives for electric machinery
- Induction generators for grid and isolated applications
- Synchronous generators
- Motor/generator sets for pumped storage
- Synchronous motors
- Electrical machinery theory
- Numerical analysis of electric machinery
- Power processing equipment
- Insulation for electric machinery
- Application of magnetic materials to electric machinery
- Application of superconducting materials to electric machinery
Energy Development and Power Generation:
- Excitation systems
- Power system stabilizers
- Advanced and renewable energy technologies
- Station design, operations and control
- Modeling, simulation and control of power plants (electrical aspects)
- Monitoring and instrumentation of power plants (electrical aspects)
- Control of distributed generation
- Hydroelectric power plants (electrical aspects)
- International practices in energy development
- Solar/photovoltaic
- Wind
- Biomass
- Batteries
- Magnetohydrodynamics
- Fuel cells
- Superconducting magnetic energy storage
- Flywheels, mechanical, hydraulic energy storage
- Distributed storage
- Industrial/commercial energy conservation
- Grid interconnection
- Tidal/wave power
- Other
Nuclear Power Engineering:
- Nuclear power plant controls (electrical aspects)
- Modeling, simulation and control (electrical aspects)
- Monitoring and instrumentation (electrical aspects)
Examples of topics out-of-scope:
- Papers without a clear focus on electrical and electronics engineering aspects
- Papers dealing with power transformers
- Papers dealing with power system topics without a focus on energy conversion units
- Papers dealing with power electronics without any link to energy conversion apparatus such as electrical drives, electrical power production or electrical energy storage equipment
Types of Papers Published
The journal publishes three types of papers:
- Research papers
- Application papers
- Survey papers
Research papers are expected to present innovative solutions, new concepts and methodologies, original ideas or technology solutions resulting from a solid and sufficiently mature research work. In research papers it is essential that the authors clearly identify the novelty of their findings. An adequate survey of the most relevant publications in the same technical area should be provided in the introduction to highlight the novelty of the work with respect to the existing knowledge and literature. It is also necessary that results are supported by an appropriate validation. This can be achieved presenting tests on small-scale laboratory prototypes or full-scale apparatus, whenever possible, but there are instances where collecting experimental data is reasonably unfeasible or too challenging. In such cases accurate independent validations against numerical simulation results can be acceptable. The models and methodologies used for simulations, though, need to be clearly illustrated and, as a reviewer, you should pay special attention to their soundness and reliability. Finally, theoretical papers, including a significant amount of advanced mathematical or conceptual elaborations, are welcome on condition that authors demonstrate the actual or potential engineering application of their research – for instance through case studies or practical examples – as well as the technical soundness of final results.
Application papers are expected to illustrate the application of new technologies or report data, information and practical experiences collected on real systems or apparatus. These papers may not result from a research activity but need to provide very useful, complete and experimentally supported information which can be of high interest or strong help for researchers, practitioners or professionals working in the field. In this sense, contributions from the industry are particularly welcome. The readership expects that these papers provide a very detailed description of the products or processes to which the application refers, usually including pictures and schematics, and present complete experiments, measurements, statistics, on-field experiences and lessons learnt which can impact on a broad audience in the power engineering community. For application-oriented papers, discussions based on mere simulations or calculations are not sufficient and the authors are expected to clearly identify the interest of the material being presented in the context of currently existing applications or in view of new envisioned developments.
Survey papers (also known as review papers) are usually accepted upon invitation and should be written by highly authoritative experts in the field. They are expected to provide a clear, complete and up-to-date description of the state of the art, criticality analyses as well as future expected challenges and developments in a given technical area of interest for the journal readership. The quality of a review paper needs to be assessed very carefully because good surveys can attract many citations and strengthen the journal positioning in the paper field while poor surveys can be detrimental to the journal prestige. For this reason, review papers generally need a relatively high number of favourable reviews to be accepted for publication. One basic requirement for a good survey manuscript is that it should be comprehensible also by readers who are not experts in the fields, but simply interested in gaining a general up-to-date knowledge on the subject. It is also important that the state-of-the-art description be complete and such to cover all the latest cutting-edge advances as well as major criticalities, challenges and prospects, which implies an unusually large number of recent highly-relevant references.
In case you are interested in having an invitation to submit a survey paper in a given area, please send an email to the Editor-in-Chief with a complete description of your and your co-authors’ expertise and publication record in that area.
Each submission will be reviewed according to different criteria depending on which of the three categories it matches.
Peer Review
The articles in this journal are peer reviewed in accordance with the requirements set forth in the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations Manual (https://pspb.ieee.org/images/files/files/opsmanual.pdf). Each published article was reviewed by a minimum of two independent reviewers using a single-anonymous or double-anonymous peer review process. For a single-anonymous peer review process, the identities of the reviewers are not known to the authors, but the reviewers know the identities of the authors. For a double-anonymous peer review process, the identities of the reviewers are not known to the authors and the identities of the authors are not known to the reviewers. Articles will be screened for plagiarism before acceptance.
Open Access
This publication is a hybrid journal, allowing either Traditional manuscript submission or Open Access (author-pays OA) manuscript submission.
The OA option, if selected, enables unrestricted public access to the article via IEEE Xplore. The OA option will be offered to the author at the time the manuscript is accepted. If selected, the OA fee of $2,495 must be paid before the article is published in the journal. If you have unusual circumstances about this, please contact the Editor-in-Chief. Any other applicable charges (such as the overlength page charge and/or charge for the use of color in the print format) will be billed separately once the manuscript formatting is complete but prior to the publication.
The traditional option, if selected, enables access to all qualified subscribers and purchasers via IEEE Xplore. No OA payment is required.
Table of Contents & Abstracts
Volume 39, Number 1, March 2024
Volume 38, Number 4, December 2023
Volume 38, Number 3, September 2023
Volume 38, Number 2, June 2023
Volume 38, Number 1, March 2023
Volume 37, Number 4, December 2022
Volume 37, Number 3, September 2022
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
Dionysios C. Aliprantis, Purdue University, USA
Power Engineering Letters Editor-in-Chief:
Rabih A. Jabr, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Editor-in-Chief at Large:
Nikos Hatziargyriou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Senior Consulting Editor:
Shaahin Filizadeh, University of Manitoba, Canada
Senior Editors:
Shaahin Filizadeh, University of Manitoba, Canada
Ali Mehrizi-Sani, Virginia Tech, USA
Mohammad Sedigh Toulabi, University of Windsor, Canada
IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion Associate Editors:
Emmanuel Agamloh, Baylor University, USA
Mohd Hasan Ali, University of Memphis, USA
Edson da Costa Bortoni, Itajubá Federal University, Brazil
Gerd Bramerdorfer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Feifei Bu, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Andrea Cavagnino, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Thanga Raj Chelliah, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
Fang Chen, Tesla, Inc., USA
Y. Christine Chen, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Seungdeog Choi, Mississippi State University, USA
Mauro Di Nardo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Siniša Djurović, University of Manchester, UK
Guanghui Du, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, China
Yao Duan, Toshiba International Corporation, USA
Rukmi Dutta, University of New South Wales, Australia
Ayman EL-Refaie, Marquette University, USA
Jawad Faiz, University of Tehran, Iran
Lingling Fan, University of South Florida, USA
João F. Fernandes, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Shanelle N. Foster, Michigan State University, USA
Srihari Gangaraj, Brunswick Corporation, USA
Yonghao Gui, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Rajesh Gupta, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India
Konstantinos N. Gyftakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Christoph Hackl, Hochschule München (HM) University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Md Enamul Haque, Deakin University, Australia
Marko Hinkkanen, Aalto University, Finland
Jiefeng Hu, Federation University Australia, Australia
Md. Rabiul Islam, University of Wollongong, Australia
Ritesh Kumar Keshri, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, India
Christopher H. T. Lee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Gang Lei, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Yang Li, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Chunhua Liu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Minghui Lu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Yousef Mahmoud, Kennesaw State University, USA
Antonio J. Marques Cardoso, CISE, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Mojtaba Mirsalim, Tehran Polytechnic University, Iran
Marta Molinas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Zahra Nasiri-Gheidari, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Heng Nian, Zhejiang University, China
Jonas K. Nøland, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Stefano Nuzzo, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Siavash Pakdelian, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Ayesha Sayed, Tesla, Inc., USA
Qobad Shafiee, University of Kurdistan, Iran
Xiaodong Sun, Jiangsu University, China
Jon Are Wold Suul, SINTEF Energy Research, Norway
Silvio Vaschetto, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Slobodan N. Vukosavić, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Oliver Wallscheid, Paderborn University, Germany
Fengxiang Wang, Quanzhou Institute of Equipment Manufacturing, China
Xiaoyu Wang, Carleton University, Canada
Lijian Wu, Shanghai Electric Wind Power Group, China
Lie Xu, University of Strathclyde, UK
Wei Xu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Hui Yang, Southeast University, China
Chen Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Xiaoguang Zhang, North China University of Technology, China
Yongchang Zhang, North China Electric Power University, China
Xing Zhao, University of York, UK
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